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Day 3: Twelve Days of Voyager Christmas

So by now, surely everyone has seen the 10 minute long, Inside Game of Thrones preview. If you haven’t then please, jump down the page before continuing on….

Elio and Linda run the amazing George R. R. Martin fansite westeros.org (and it must be noted that George himself didn’t stop singing their praises the entire time he was visiting the HC building). Head on over to westeros.org for a complete screencap breakdown of the Inside Game of Thrones preview and marvel at the extreme level of detail HBO have gone to (and that Elio and Linda have managed to notice and explain). Truly one of the best experiences for any fan.

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On the third day of Christmas, Voyager recommends to you…

The Illustrated Man — Ray Bradbury
Recommended by: Emad Aktar, Crime-Thriller Editorial Assistant

“You won’t find a collection of short stories more imaginative or captivating than this anywhere: effortlessly cool!” — Emad

A classic collection of stories — all told on the skin of a man — from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man’s body for his art! Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He’s tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories — voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations! the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man.


Ray Bradbury

Born in Waikegan, Illinois on 2nd August 1920, Ray Bradbury is one of the world’s best know Science Fiction authors. The range of his work is enormous – he has published some 500 stories, plays, poems and novels since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was 20 years old.

Like Isaac Asimov and the other greats of science fiction on our list, it would be impossible to list all of Ray’s incredible body of work. But check out Raymond Bradbury’s official website for the latest releases in hardback and paperback.

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Try a Bradbury classic

Out Now from Ray Bradbury

We’ll Always Have Paris (Paperback, 2009)

From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of FAHRENHEIT 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Recently described in The Times as ‘the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction’ Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy.

 In this new volume of never-before-published stories, follow a space shuttle crew as they voyage sixty million miles from home, discover what happens when a writer ‘with the future’s eye’ believes his friend to be writing stories aboard a UFO, and listen in on a couple talking themselves backwards through time to the moment when they first held hands.

This entertaining and gripping collection is a treasure trove of Bradbury gems — eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative — to delight readers of all ages.

Try a Bradbury classic:

Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback, this edition 2008)

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic novel of a post-literate future, ‘Fahrenheit 451′ stands alongside Orwell’s ’1984′ and Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.


     

    

  


Forgotten Treasure

This month’s Forgotten Treasure, that we simply must remind you about has been selected by our very own Voyager Deputy Publishing Director Sarah Hodgson.

Sarah has picked Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man…

Best known for Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury has also written many other stories, including this masterful collection first published in 1952. Despite being nearly sixty years old, the ideas contained within it remain as vibrant as ever. Each tale is a gem in its own right, and they are all drawn together by powerful and moving overarching narrative.

Read an extract from The Illustrated Man